Madhu Sudhan
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splitting a text in a field from a web screen
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Hi Team,

I have a field with Phone number which captures both phone number with extn.

Now when I want to edit the details in the screen it is showing the Phone Number field with extn, I want to split this and show the extn to another filed called phone extension.

Here I am using a traditional web and I am using the same screen for inserting and editing the details

while inserting I am using separate fields for phone number and extn and the database is storing the phone number and extn as a single field.

but while editing the details the Phone Number field is showing the phone number with extn, I want to split the content and add the  Phone extn field in the edit screen. Please help me how to achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Madhu

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Lenon Manhães
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Hi, friend!

Have you tried to use the String_Split action?

You can use it with a structure to hold phone and extn values.

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Madhu Sudhan
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Lenon Manhães wrote:

Hi, friend!

Have you tried to use the String_Split action?

You can use it with a structure to hold phone and extn values.

 

 Hi Lenon,


I could not find this server action (string_split) in my app (Traditional web app). But I have done this with a code snippet. Thanks for the information.

Regards,

Madhu

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Agno Silveira
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Hi Madhu,

Maybe you need add a dependencies, example:


In the dependencies, there are many very useful actions that you may need.


Regards.

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Raphael Ranieri
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Madhu,

String_Split function will help you to create a list of text, based on a delimiter.

For example if you have a string like:

1,2,3,4

And use this string in String_Split with comma as a delimiter it will return a list with:

1

2

3

4


I think this is not your user case here.

What I think you need is Substr() function, see:

With it you will be able to get for example just the 2 first digits and after the rest of your string.


You can then use it like this for example:

Substr(Text,0,2) //This would be the first 2 digits, for example extern code
+
Substr(Text,2,Length(Text)) //This would be the rest of your telephone


Hope it helps,

Cheers and Regards,
RR :)

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Hi Madhu,

You can use Input mask to achieve this.

This component will give nice look to your application page and easy store functionality.

https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component-overview/647/custom-input-masks

Hope it will help :)

Good Day

Regards,

Samiksha

 

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